President Obama to Switch to Windows Mobile?
by Wyatt WalterObama’s addiction to his Blackberry has been a point of interest to a lot of tech blogs during the election season as well as so far in his Presidency. Obama has made it clear in the past that he would really like to keep his Blackberry, but has not been allowed to thus far. Randy Siegel of Microsoft has cited the fact that data going from the email or PIM server has to pass through RIM’s network as a reason to not choose the Blackberry platform. The reason is that RIM is based out of Canada and the President’s data would have to cross to foreign soil and can’t be trusted. Microsoft is suggesting that Obama use a Sectéra Edge, a Windows Mobile based device that has been certified by the NSA, something that RIM can’t say about their devices.
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Jan 26th, 2009
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